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More to the point Andrew Bailey why aren't you on the front foot going after their markets? If you aren't up to the job I'll do it I could not do any worse!

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Keeping business in the City? I think it may be more keeping up appearances with the fine bone China and Royal periwinkle crockery at the BoE. With the riparean supper on the banks of the Thames at Henly regatta.

It is clear that the reason the EU didn't want the FTA to include the City was their determination to steal its business now that they could. It would teach the UK a lesson it would never forget which would appease the ranting French President.

Deregulation bring the potential for profit by owning greater risk. If you buy and sell science & technology stocks you are owning the risk that an Invention might be a flop. With fewer perhaps more targeted regulations it would hopefully reduce the bureaucracy and free up the business to make even more profit.

I'm reminded of the regulatory ways of an early Ireland. Dublin was known as the Pale and outside Dublin was beyond the Pale where there was less law. In this example the EU is the Pale and the UK in arguably beyond that pale.

Andrew Bailey reminds me of the little Billy bunter figure standing crying in the playground at lunchtime and the dinner lady goes over and asks why what has happened? He took my ball! Well would you like me to go and get it back or are you big enough and brave enough to go get it yourself?

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